Whats most interesting about the book and the direction Design for Democracy is heading at the moment?
RG: It’s fascinating for two reasons, one because it shows the power of information design, secondly because it actually makes a difference. It’s been long in coming. Right after Florida I started talking to people on the Hill and in Washington about this stuff. Well they didn’t understand what the hell I was talking about in the beginning, but in every room there’s a Coke can with a nutrition label on it; you can point to and they begin to understand. What’s the plan for getting these books into hand of election officials? RG: Design for Democracy actually has two or three parallel tracks. One is a number of projects that resulted in the work that’s in the book by Marcia Lausen. On a parallel track we were using this theory and experience to develop the guidelines for the federal Elections Assistance Commission in Washington, which has been adopted now, so they are the guidelines for all for the jurisdictions in the country. But on the book itself, we’re going to send a copy to every
